Aplmac

Mama likes the looks of this place!

Where would I expect to find this delightful spot?

just after you get outside of the Duty Free shops inside the bldg.

I'm attaching three other shots I took that same afternoon.

Wonder if Host Mach has an "in" with someone at Carnival,

who can shed some light on this mystery?

Thanks for inputs large and small, re. this odd card.

For some years now, I've known the lady whose card it was

so I'm not guessing about her travel industry status

-she's been an accountant for British Airways for about 20-30 yrs.

and she and her husband do flights and cruises like you and I do hot dinners

because she gets all kindsa deals --like 10% of what you and I get to pay(we're so lucky!) :D

So she's not a Carnival employee, but she does get her special rates.

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Below are examples of regular paying-passenger cruise cards

from years both before and after the date on June's card

to illustrate the unusual nature of this employee? or near-employee? card.

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A view looking ENE towards Tortola in the far distance

The view from Beacon Point looks like...

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If you do any sort of island tour

you'll almost certainly wind up at this famous lookout point

in the hills above Charlotte Amalie, overlooking the harbour and the ships.

If you're on Carnival..this is your ship..

If you're on Princess, this is your ship

This is the lookout point.

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Once we were docked, it looked like this!

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These pictorial threads seem to have been reasonably popular at other CC Caribbean Ports of Call

so I thought "Why not one for St.Thomas and St.John, too?"

I'm depending on y'all to chime in with your stuff too, okay?

Don't leave it all up to me, bcoz I don't have that many shots of St.Thomas

and none at all of St.John!

So please do your bit

and show us your shots of the scenic U.S. Virgin Islands generally!

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I thought maybe I should start near the beginning, as we entered the Charlotte Amalie channel

on the way in to the dock.

That's Emerald Princess ahead of us -and the date was 3rd. November 2008

Were you there?

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Some shots of our trip over to Pinel Island on our last trip to St. Maarten

 

 

 

 

 

 

The other side of Pinel Island

 

Wow!!

Talk about The Road Less Travelled ...those are very nice shots of a rarely-visited place.

Many thanks!

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For Christmas, I have a 'travel' Christmas tree that I put an ornaments that we have picked up on our cruises

- and I also hang our cruise keys on it.

So many Xmas ornaments are too heavy, these days.

The makers don't consider that a Xmas tree ornaments first consideration is that it should be light.

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We really don't remember on all whether we dock or tender in St. Thomas, Dominica, Barbados,

St. Lucia, Antigua, and St. Kitts.

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There is a lot of lost history about Carnival.

The lady to whom it was issued works for a major airline for some decades now

so she gets all sorts of perks travel-industry-wide.

Is this card a special issue for industry workers? Travel agents?

What? -does anyone know?

It's not the standard cruise card for the era, because I've seen some of them

and they are nothing like this 'Plain Jane'-lookin card!

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..about an hour before sailaway

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Just curious....the ship leaves at 10 pm...how did you miss the ship?

With a 10 p.m. departure time

I woulda thought that Victory would be just about impossible to miss!

Enquiring Minds need to know just how you missed this one! :D

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And here is the odd fellow guarding my casino....

And here's his buddy!

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I think Victory was my favourite ship, and by far the most amazing itinerary.

 

We did the following:

San Juan - missed the ship, so ended up flying on a 9 seater to St. Thomas :eek: - :eek:

 

 

The ship is beautiful, in my opinion, and had a laid-back, easygoing feel .

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aplmac,

 

do you use any filters for your daylight shots at sea?

(except for the fisheye which can't accept a front-mounted filter)

-these UV's more for protection against salt spray, fingerprints etc.

but they do also have some small effect reducing haze and other minor atmospheric effects

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I keep hoping that some kind person out there

will use a magnet to void the info on the magnetic strip

and send me their 'dead'/cancelled Carnival credit-card for my collection of cruise-cards

-the one with the nice photo of the ship!? :)

I don't otherwise stand a chance in Hell of ever acquiring it

(see where I live?)

I'll also accept any and every cruise card from any and every cruise-line

(so many I don't have yet) -I'm NOT into identity theft..

..I have a rather strong one of my own, thanks,

-and besides.. I'm already richer than you! ;) :D

So please...anyone who might contribute

please stick your old/dead/un-used cards in an envelope

(NO Scotch tape please --it peels the layers apart!)

and send your envelope to:

David Hunt (my real name)

3, Erdiston Drive

Pine Gardens, St.Michael,

BARBADOS, W.Indies (now you know where I live too!)

Thank you for your consideration.

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Please click on URL..

http://s177.photobucket.com/albums/w.../Ship%20CARDS/

to see what I've collected so far.

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Like yuh livin near ah gully;)

I living in Pine Gardens, up-slope from the Belleville avenues

and is parrots all in de trees on a morning and monkeys some mornings around that same time.

The babies(sky blue in colour) are the cutest, but the troop move quickly

and is not easy to get shots of dem, nah?

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These shots taken right in my yard! :)

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May 2007

On the way back from over on the French side..

Looking over towards the airport..

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We were standing in the hallway saying good night to each other, prior to retiring to our individual cabins

when my friend pops open a panel right there...

to find this --'blackwater' plumbing attached to our bathrooms!

Isn't that just beautiful? :D

What's the little motor thing for? Individual suction, per unit?

I guess the piping lagged in reflective silver is Hot Water coming in ?

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.. is there on one of the islands : St Thomas, Dominica, Barbados, St Lucia, Antigua, St Kitts

- a time difference between the ship and these islands that I should consider in planning our trips ?

Victory's home base is SJ,PR

which is on the same time as all the Lesser Antilles islands it runs up and down.

Can anyone tell me which dock Carnival Victory uses in St Lucia.

From what I have been reading there are 2 dockx

There are a couple of ships in port on our date (November )

and I don't know if our ship dock in Pointe Seraphine or dock at La Place Carenage.

Because they are year-round visitors(not just winters-only)

Carnival usually gets the berth of preference.

You should be here...

Point Seraphine duty-free shopping complex for cruisers.

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